Ruth Ann Casto is the celebrity mother of Billy Ray Cyrus a country music artist, actor, and songwriter. He is known for his hit song Achy Breaky Heart. She passed away on August 12, 2022.
Ruth Ann Casto Family Life
Ruth Ann Casto was born on May 14 1937 in Greenup, Kentucky. She married her long-life partner Ronald Ray Cyrus in August 1952 but unfortunately separated in 1966 after 15 years of marriage. They had one child together Billy Ray Cyrus born on August 25 1961 in Flatwoods, Kentucky. She however remarried. She has family members and grandchildren like Miley Cyrus, Noah Cyrus, Brandi, and Trace Cyrus.
Ruth Ann Castro’s Son Billy Ray Cyrus
Billy Ray Cyrus is an American actor, songwriter, and singer. He released 16 studio albums and 53 singles and is popularly known for his single song Achy Breaky Heart that topped the US Hot Country Songs chart. It was the first song to achieve triple platinum status in Australia and best-selling in 1992. Some Gave All was his first album released in 1992, the second was It Won’t Be the Last followed by Storm in the Heartland, Short Full of Love, and Southern Rain.
His first single on the US Billboard Hot 100 featuring Lil Nas remixed song Old Town Road. It was on the Billboard Hot R&B Hip Hop Songs and Billboard Hot Rap Songs for twenty weeks. The song won him two Grammy awards. He has two Christian albums Time Flies and The Other Side in 2003. In 2010, he was featured in the movie The Spy Next Door with Jackie Chan shot in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Cyrus has been on two ABC documentaries Billy Ray Cyrus Dreams Come True and A Year on the Road. He has been in films like Yet Another Side of Me, Been Here All Along, The Nanny, The Next Wave, Love Boat, and Hannah Montana.
He performed alongside Dierks Bentley at CMA Fest in Downtown Nashville. Cyrus and his partner Karina Smirnoff took part in the fourth season of the US version of Dancing with the Stars but were eliminated in the eighth week. He is on the Parents Television Council advisory board. He was featured on Broadway debut as Billy Flynn in Chicago He endorsed his support for Donald Trump in the 2024 US presidential election. His daughter Miley starred in the series Hannah Montana. He has an estimated net worth of $10 million.
He was married to Cindy Smith from 1986 but they divorced in 1991. They co-wrote songs like Where’m I Gonna Live and Some Gave All that was on his Some Gave All album. His children were born in 1992, Christopher Cody Cyrus with waitress Kristin Luckey and Miley Ray Cyrus with Leticia Finley. He secretly married Finley when she was pregnant with her second child and had three children together. He lived with his family on his 500-acre farm in Thompson’s Station, Tennessee. He filed for divorce in 2022 and began dating Australian singer Fire Rose and they married in October 2023. They divorced in May 2024 due to irreconcilable differences. His son Trace Cyrus took part in the new Syfy reality series UFO; Unbelievably Freakin’ Obvious.
